A surprise announcement from Sega this Tuesday revealed the release of the Yakuza Remastered Collection, which includes Yakuza 3, 4, 5 for the Playstation 4. On Wednesday, Sega dropped the first of three parts of the Remastered Collection with Yakuza 3, which is out now digitally via the Playstation Store in the US and Europe.

Yakuza 4 & 5 will be out on October 29, 2019 and February 11, 2020 respectively. You can also buy the entire collection, but you can’t play them all right now. If one buys the entire Yakuza Remastered Collection, the two latter games will only be unlocked on their respective release dates. The digital collection edition currently retails at $59.99.

If you’re a physical copy junkie (like me), Sega will also be releasing a “very limited run” of a physical box set called Yakuza Remastered Collection: Day One Edition which will include physical CDs of the Yakuza 3, 4, and 5 games. This box set will be released on February 11, 2020, the same day as the digital release of the remastered Yakuza 5. The boxed set will retail for $59.99 as well.

According to Sega, below are the upgrades fans will see in the Remastered Collection:

“What’s Changed in The Yakuza Remastered Collection?

The Yakuza Remastered Collection is far from a typical console generation port. In addition to graphical and performance upgrades (720p –> 1080p at 30fps –> 60fps), all three games have gone through a rigorous re-localization process. The English scripts for each game have been reviewed, revised, and even rewritten in some cases, and content previously cut from the western releases of Yakuza 3, 4, and 5 have been re-added in The Yakuza Remastered Collection.

In Yakuza 3, this means the Mahjong, Shogi, Massage Parlor, and ever-popular Cabaret minigames, as well as a collection of Substories cut from the original release, are now available in the West for the first time!

Several quality-of-life changes have also been added for each release in the collection, including a Substory tracker on the map and the ability to toggle between English and Japanese written lyrics during Karaoke.”

And now we have more news on Netflix’s live-action adaptation of hit sci-fi series Cowboy Bebop: according to the NZ Herald, the cast are currently in New Zealand working on the series. Stuntman Tristan Liu posted a picture of him together with Bebop’s main cast John Cho and Mustafa Shakir, along with English-Bangladeshi actor Jon Uddin.

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Hot on the heels of acclaimed horror artist Junji Ito’s appearance at the Crunchyroll Expo last August 31 is some really good news for his fans out there: Ito’s Uzumaki manga will be getting an anime adaptation.

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Nintendo has released this Wednesday an overview trailer of their remake of the 1993 Game Boy title The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening. Check it out below.
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The future is here, and while we aren’t getting those flying cars yet we got something even better—Teasing Master Takagi-san in VR.
If getting teased by your crush is your thing, then this might be the answer to your woes.

Atlus just streamed the slick new opening movie for the upcoming Persona 5 Royal, the enhanced follow-up to their highly-successful Persona 5 game. Without further ado, check it out below.
While I’ll forever miss ”Wake Up, Get Out, Get Out There”, we get a groovy new song whose (presumably) English lyrics we’ll all struggle to understand.

Good news to fans waiting for news on the upcoming fourth season of Food Wars. Shokugeki no Soma. First off, an official release date has been confirmed, with the fourth season pegged for an October 11 release.

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A new trailer for the upcoming theatrical OVA of Sato’s yuri manga Fragtime was just released this Monday. Check it out below:
The trailer also reveals more cast members, listed below. Only Anzai’s role was named.

Fresh details have just been served to us on the upcoming remake of OG cooking anime series Shin Chuka Ichiban. (“The True Best Cuisine in China.”) or known to us English-speakers as Cooking Master Boy.

Looking to re-play classic Dante on your Nintendo Switch. Well then, we have good news for you: CAPCOM has announced this Wednesday that they will release the second Devil May Cry game on the Nintendo Switch this month, on the 19th.

Good news to those who prefer their anime in English dub: Adult Swim’s Toonami programming block has just announced on their official Facebook page that they will be premiering –anime of the year—Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba on October 12.

The One Piece manga has already been running for like forever, so much so that we can’t imagine a world without it (okay, I exaggerate, but you get the idea). Well then, how about this: One Piece will finally be over after five years.

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